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This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/Mac users who cannot read/INDIA/2011-03/1300628694 post] advises that for Reader 1, “I scrolled through on the text option so that download time was faster, and then I switched to the tiff Tiff images if I wanted to see the full image”. However, it seems as though your options very much depend on your particular computer, as for the writer of this section, within Reader 1, the only reading option which works is the TIFF option. (Reader 2 no longer exists) Mac users can read about suitable plug-ins in this [https://web.archive.org/web/20131003100606/http://www.uspto.gov/faq/plugins/tiff.jsp link] from the US Patents Office and this [http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060219160433715 link] from MacOSXhints.com, now archived, or consult Apple Help.
→Digital Library of India
Book Reader 1 is now the only option. Make sure you can see the bottom of the screen which has the arrows and the page numbers. You will need to see these to be able to turn the pages. If you can’t see these, there are two scrolling devices on the side of the screen, and you will need to scroll the bottom one until you can see the arrows etc. Individual books do not have a search facility. If however you have a page reference (from the index, or elsewhere), you can first click over the existing page number to delete it, type the page number you require, then press ‘enter’ on your computer keyboard. This may not bring you to exactly the page you require, but by looking at the actual page number of the page displayed, (as opposed to the computer page number) you should be able to find the page you require. The first few pages of the book may be blank, you just need to keep going further into the book before you can read a page. (Note that the facility to type in the page number was, until October 2013, apparently only available with the browser Internet Explorer but now extends to other browsers including Google Chrome and Safari)
[http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/tifftips.htm TIFF tips] Library of Virginia has general information about viewing TIFF images
